With technology enriching our everyday lives with all sorts of advancements, many of them pertain to our physical bodies, and some of them can even tell our body’s physiological age as opposed to the actual, chronological years – including people like Cristiano Ronaldo.
As it happens, the football (or ‘soccer’ in America) heavyweight has recently been a guest on a podcast hosted by WHOOP, a manufacturer of wearable tech that helps individuals improve their health, fitness, and longevity. During the show, he used the WHOOP to tell him his physiological age.
Cristiano Ronaldo is physiologically 29 at 40?
Specifically, the app’s new Healthspan feature, which offers a long-term overview of a person’s physical health, behaviors, performance, and other metrics to measure their physiological age, has shown Ronaldo that he was actually 12 years younger, or 28.9 at his current age of 40.
Indeed, the famous football player couldn’t hide his surprise at the fact, reading his results from the device and the app out loud and joking that this means he shouldn’t be looking at retiring just yet, as the results are obviously giving him at least a decade of a fruitful career on the grassy fields.
“‘Your Whoop age is lower than your chronological age, showing excellent health behavior.’ So this means that I’m going to play 10 years more football.”
Notably, the specific habits that make Cristiano Ronaldo physiologically younger than his actual chronological age include his daily step count of 17,673, a healthy amount of sleep, compression therapy, cryotherapy, and cold showers that help in his recovery after exertion, lowering stress, 10 hours of training per week, and others.
Elsewhere, modern technology is helping athletes across the board achieve better results, including the NBA Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry who trains with an artificial intelligence (AI) robot, as an example of using artificial intelligence (AI) to support players.
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